Kavala Island (ÃÂle Kavala) is an island in Lake Tanganyika in central Africa. It had a lighthouse by the late 19th century. The London Missionary Society set up a mission there in 1882, relocating from Ujiji, becoming its Central African Mission. The island is about long and about from the western shore of Lake Tanganyika. It is a possession of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).